Using the Intel(R) Philanthropic Peer-to-Peer Program to help find cures. United Devices have been operating a program to deliver a distributed computing solution to the huge amounts of processing involved in the search for a cure for cancer. The application runs just like a SETI@Home client task and analyses the potential of different compounds against cancer cells. A worthwhile expenditure of your idle clock ticks!

While most of us are still happy sending MMS transmissions containing images of new puppies, asking if we have found the correct cheese in the supermarket or simply just something stupid; the Gardaí are suggesting that MMS combined with camera phones could be used to capture crime as it happens. Read on…

Well it has been a while since I last blogged and I have long since discarded all my old Grey Matter archives. However, yet again Mícheál Ó Foghlú has rekindled my interest with this new web logging package, MoveableType…(more…)